„Count Egmont’s Soliloquy In Prison.“
Act 5, Scene 2
Translations, From the German
Letitia Elizabeth Landon quotes
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Birthdate: 14. August 1802
Date of death: 15. October 1838
Letitia Elizabeth Landon was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L.
Quotes Letitia Elizabeth Landon
„Egmont, followed by Clara, Brackenberg, and Citizens.“
Act 5, Scene 1
Translations, From the German
„Oh, all
Know love is woman's happiness.“
The Improvisatrice (1824)
„... Oh! the heart
Makes its own happiness, perchance the best,
When consecrate to one engrossing love!“
The London Literary Gazette, 1829
„Childhood whose very happiness is love.“
Erinna
The Golden Violet (1827)
„Strange, that ignorance should be our best happiness in this life, and yet be the one we are ever striving to destroy!“
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)
„The path was new, and there was thrown
A sweet veil over pleasure's ray;
But ignorance is happiness,
When young Hope is to show the way;“
(12th January 1822) Ten Years Ago.
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822
„… oh! love will last
When all that made it happiness is past,—
When all its hopes are as the glittering toys
Time present offers, time to come destroys“
Juliet after the Masquerade. By Thompson
The Troubadour (1825)
„I have ever remarked, that when Fate has any great misfortune in store, it is always preceded by a brief period of calm and sunshine—as if to add bitterness of contrast to all other misery. It is for the happy to tremble—it is over their heads that the thunderbolt is about to burst.“
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)
„I held that Love
Which chooseth from a thousand only one,
To be the object of that tenderness
Natural to every heart; which can resign
Its own best happiness for one dear sake;
Can bear with absence; hath no part in Hope,—
For Hope is somewhat selfish, Love is not,—
And doth prefer another to itself.“
A History of the Lyre
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
„The early graced of Grecian song,
The fragrant myrtle tree;
For it doth speak of happy love,
The delicate, the true.“
Poetical Portrait I
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
„Let the rose fall, another rose
Will bloom upon the self-same tree;
Let the bird die, ere evening close
Some other bird will sing for me.
It is for the beloved to love,
'Tis for the happy to be kind;
Sorrow will more than death remove
The associate links affections bind.“
(2nd April 1831) Lines Supposed to be the Prayer of the Supplicating Nymph in Mr. Lawrence Macdonald’s Exhibition of Sculptures
The London Literary Gazette, 1831
